The Turkistan Islamic Party announced the death of Shaykh Qurban Ata in a February 2010 airstrike in Badghis province in Afghanistan. Ata was a Chinese Uighur who was 71 years old when he was killed.

Shaykh Qurban Ata was a Chinese Uighur who was killed in the February 2010 airstrike in Badghis province.
A Jan. 19 strike in the northwestern province of Badghis killed 13 Uighurs and two Turks.